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showing a crowd of visitors of both sexes and all ages engaged in gossip

A corpulent man is holding three wigs on a stand

and took refuge in the Athelney marshes in Somerset

The image is a satire on the lavishness of civic hospitality

The Picadilly nuisance, London London bridge railway Terminus Hotel showing a crowd of visitors'The Picadilly nuisance', London, 1818; a disorderly mass of pedestrians, including a fruit seller in the foreground, fills the pavement outside the White Horse coaching terminus and Hatchett's coffee house in Piccadilly. A coach and pair, driven recklessly, runs down two men and nearly overturns a cart to its right.

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